skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we're similar to another recent launch in functionality. But not in those other matters!
There is a config setting for that

notablescan = true

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/configuration-optio...
huh, it's working for me in chrome
A Day Without Colors
Wheelchair Fakers Skip Airport Security Lines
Motorcycle Mayhem App Acquired for $5,000 on Apptopia
An another explanation for those sorts of conspiracies (9/11, JFK...) is that the conspirators were not the perpretrators. Instead, they were people who 'left the door open' and allowed an attack that otherwise would have been easily prevented by the security services. That would require far fewer people.
Vringo sues ZTE in the UK using patents it recently acquired from Nokia
>your condescending tone aside, jQuery's API and vendor support is subject to change, especially in the coming months. last i heard, 50% usage also means 50% non-usage.

I'm afraid the points you make are not gonna help with my condescending tone.

50% usage? That's a HUGE success for a de-facto standard. There are even _official_ standards with much LESS use (SOAP comes to mind). So, the "50% non usage" part means absolutely nothing.

>you are also assuming that the target is a web browser, which is what jQuery is meant for. jQuery has no bearing on firefox extension programming, nodejs programming, or upcoming win8 RT and Firefox OS programming

Even if that was true, it would be irrelevant. Yes, a standard is only a standard is some SPECIFIC field. RS-232 is a standard, but has no bearing on, say, building construction. And those ANSI Screw size standards have no bearing at all in software: http://www.engineersedge.com/screw_threads_chart.htm

That doesn't make them any less standard.

That said, your examples are also false. jQuery can and IS used in nodejs AND in firefox extension programming. And presummably Firefox OS programming. Some examples:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-scr...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/491490/how-to-use-jquery-...
Why haven't they decided to contribute to MDN instead since it already has a lot of good content?
I really wish the OP had linked to the explanation for the exams: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-10-08-software-developm...

The author believes this test is very basic, and to follow your auto mechanic metaphor it would be like asking anyone from a Midas Muffler employee to Kiichiro Toyoda the difference between disc and drum brakes.

(Not that I agree with the author - to me, "basic knowledge" would be "What is big O notation?")
This looks very good. But I can tell it's still early days yet.

One UX/UI bug you should fix is to make it possible to see draft offers in one's profile. I did a save and continue, and had to dig through my browser history to get back to my draft offer.

I also got a 403 notice in the UI when I clicked the Save and Continue button.

I do agree with some of the posters here that you need to clarify the value proposition to first timers.

I'm excited to see a marketplace for consulting products like this opening up, and intend to make use of it.
I think the most likely explanation is some combination of a) the Pentagon wanted to throw money at some Canadian aircraft firms, and b) they wanted some authentic uselessness to leak to the Soviets.
>"Panels designed to relieve pressure within the engine bay were ejected to protect the stage and other engines."

Can anyone that knows something about the Falcon 9 design or rockets in general shed some light on this? That sentence makes it sound like the panels were purposefully jettisoned, which doesn't make sense to me. What do those panels do, what do they look like, and where are they?
We aren't in the listing business. You define the results with the editor and we make sure you get them delivered.
interesting rww post & comments

furthermore http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/the-nature-of-the-firm-and-w...
> Isn't it OBVIOUS?

No, it's not. I didn't (and still don't) see a mention of it being alpha or even beta on the site's homepage or the linked article. There's a notice on wiki pages that I missed.

And my impression (from the article) was that the initial content is provided by the aforementioned companies' employees, and the site is curated by W3C. So it's not like a bunch of nerds have created a site and these tech giants are endorsing it by putting their logos in the main page. They are the guys who are running it, and it's not a charity, too. It benefits all these companies (whom, in total, worth maybe about 3 trillion dollars) financially.

I'm not sour at them or anything - I'll probably use their site and share it with others. I'm just disappointed that it's just not up to the standards of what I was hoping these multi-trillion campaniles are able to do. If they were just a bunch of guys, I'd commend them. Now that it's a coalition of biggest tech giants, I can't be as forgiving.
Did Obama back bans on hate speech?
I think you are completely right!

One thing I wonder about, is how to avoid promoting useless work just for works sake. Like how many people say you should track accomplishments, not hours.

What do you think?
I decided against that "solution" when Facebook took it upon themselves to promote their @facebook.com contact information over whatever users had previously setup.
Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History
現在は西洋でも日本のアニメは子供のなかでは主流になってきたと思いますね。おそらくネットとファンサブのおかげでしょう。うちの中学生のいとこはほとんどアニメを楽でダウンロードして見てるんだけど、僕は同じことしたいた千年紀の変わり目のごろに、一つのビデオをネットから手に入れるのにはもう何時間かかったんです。残念ながら、Xboxの発売のごろから日本のゲームの人気は落ちてしまいました。
No bidding: We match tasks based on profiles and continuously expand circle of people we show it to, thus avoid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Not time based: A perfect work.io task is something that takes you a few minutes / hours but is of high value to the client

Ability to work around & offer standardized products, instead of open-end engagements (similar to the previous point but other implications as well)
Yeah this looks awful. No syntax highlighting either, which is odd because its basically automatic these days (rainbow.js or any of a million plugins). It's also surprising that they resorted to a screenshot instead of just putting the playable game on the page.

I think the use of setInterval is fine because it keeps the code very short compared to the requestAnimationFrame shim, but there should definitely be mention of it.

Hopefully I can add my tutorials to this site (which I think are much cleaner) when I'm finally done with my (blocking) larger projects.
If anything, this shows the fault tolerant design that works.
I took a gap year in 1986, as did many of my friends at school. This might be a new thing in the US, but it's fairly common in the UK, and has been for decades.
Seems similar to http://tiddlywiki.com/
So important. Spend 2 or 3 days a week focused on this.

It's easy to court some Lean methodology, find something you're pretty sure people want, and then go into 'build' mode. Don't ever go into 'build' mode.

Customers come from marketing activities. No one clamors to be at Walmart to buy the new and improved mousetrap. Some of these take calendar time.
The Kinect (at least the version for the Xbox 360) is capable of providing 1280x1024 Bayer-encoded RGB images at a reduced frame rate.
> I'm not sure being good at programming has much to do with having a whole bunch of CS knowledge; rather, it's being able to figure out what knowledge you need to know -- when you need to know it.

What I often tend to find valuable is not so much knowing what I need to know (although that's good too), but knowing what's possible. For example, there's really little need for me to be able to rattle off the code for a splay tree off the top of my head, but knowing its characteristics (and those of other data structures) is very useful - it allows me to match potential solutions to problems. All I then need to do is read up a bit more on the specific solution I have in mind.

I've found that this approach stops me reinventing the wheel too much, although it has also given me a slightly depressed view on many innovations within the computing world :-).
Why Linux is Like a "WhoDoneIt" Story, According to Developer Jiri Kosina
given that apple's retina and android's xhdpi spec fall into the same number's it's still fair to use the phrase 'high dpi'
Microsoft Accidentally Asks Google to Censor News Sites, US Government
Here's a 1993 paper giving MTBF failures for the space shuttle's main engine. With some improvements that the author of the paper suggests, it looks like MTBF is about one per 254 flights at 100% power and one in 139 flights at 104% power . (It drops to one in 20 flights at 109% power! It's surprised the failure rate has such a strong dependency on power output --- the relationship suggests that failures have something to do with thermal stress.)

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1993001...
E la Carte - Palo Alto, CA - full-time Front End Engineer

E la Carte is revolutionizing the restaurant industry with our Presto touch-screen tablets, which enable guests to browse appetizing pictures of the entire menu, place orders, split checks, make payments, and play interactive games – all from the comfort of their restaurant seats without having to wait.

Join our tight-knit team of 35 (~10 Engineers from MIT, Microsoft, and Amazon) in our Palo Alto house and help us scale up this fast-growing company. You'll wear lots of hats, have immense room for professional development and growth, and be able to make a huge impact on our product and organization. Our platforms are complex and we learn new technologies daily.

As a Front End Engineer, you'll build a new interface for our restaurant guest experience using the latest web technologies with embedded hardware. Day to day you will:

• Work with designers to develop a fully functional interface for a number of purposes.
• Tackle the challenge of guiding interactions of new guests while making the experience enjoyable for staff making use of it daily.
• Design extensibility for optimal fixed-hardware layouts while supporting any number of potential future platforms.

You'll be given a lot of flexibility but we have a few unalterable rules: be straight-forward, own your work, stay in touch, and get stuff done. We have fun too - dominate other startups with us in soccer matches, take a break for an impromptu counterstrike battle or real-life paintball, or chow down at our monthly BBQ.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Graphics software to manipulate designs, as well as graphics development toolkits.
• Python, C++ or similar language with cross-platform development experience.
• Web technologies (HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript), including advanced web frameworks such as Ember.js, KnockoutJS and Backbone.js.
• Qt, PySide and/or mobile development platform familiarity a huge plus.

Let us judge you on your skills rather than your resume by taking our challenge at www.elacarte.com/challenge OR if you prefer the typical application route, you can email us at hiring@elacarte.com
Not running with Javascript enabled? Really?
How Foodies are Using Online Tools to Find Gourmet and Artisanal Food
8 Qualities of Fearless Entrepreneurs
That is true if the CPU is responsible for data plane operations. For a lot of modern equipment, most traffic never hits the CPU (it's handled by a special asic or other packet processor) and so you wouldn't know if if LI is active.
Your drafts should be in the "Buy" menu, and your offerings in the "Provide" menu as well as on your profile.

Hunting down the 403, shouldn't happen here...

Thanks, get in touch with any of us at any time, happy to get more direct feedback & support you in any way we can.
Was it so difficult to list the members? I work at 'others' and don't like that you omitted my employer from the title. Thanks.
MercadoLibre is the latino ebay yes. MercadoPago is their payments platform akin to PayPal.

http://mercadopago.com/ is a better URL.
I remember thinking that was strange. How do you settle an antitrust lawsuit out of court? Ask every consumer ever to agree that 10c is fair for having been prevented from having the option of saying "No OS or GPL OS please, I'll sort it out myself when I get home"? I don't recall getting one red cent, even though I was sold hardware through several vendors who had been bribed to not offer me options. While I'm sure many consumers would still have said "No, I need things installed" I can also see many saying "Nah, I'm not forking up for an OS, I'll run GPL" or "Nah, I'll... No. (pirated CD at the ready back home)".

By the same token, half the crap on a fresh install nowadays doesn't really benefit either although it's hard to say which direction the money is flowing, I suppose if they're charging me less for installing McAffee/ton of ISPs/etc whatever, I'll opt in and remove them. But I still don't have the option or anything..
I'm actually building a business around building MVPs -- if this is a web or mobile project, shoot me an email and I'd love to help out!
Why We Should Stop Talking About 'Bus Stigma'
Josh Harris Is Back With His Latest Plan For A Real-World 'Truman Show'
This is Paul (fucking) Lutus for people who might just miss the username.
Very cool - I've seen website plugins that embed a chatroom, but never a chatroom plugin that lists active websites as rooms.

A couple of issues:

* The badge indicating the number of connected users looks like a notification you would get when someone has conversed.

* The lobby has less users connected than the main chat. I dont understand this if it consists of all connected users.

* Trending is amazing and should highlighted more.

Ideas:

* Market and use this like an active reddit. What are users reading and real time discussions.

* Market this towards a specific (large) community. You need an audience for the value of chatrooms to shine.

* Create a widget to embed on a website. Easiest way to grab a community IMO.

* Gamify with points and/or achievements. Basically look at how gamification works in stack overflow or even here on Hacker News and take whats best. It's extremely important on social products (which chatrooms are).

The hardest part I see for this idea is overcoming the Graveyard. Once users begin to use it, then it becomes way more valuable.
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D'oh. I had to fix all of my numbers.

The bottom line is that if we a priori thought that all possible reliabilities for the engine were equally likely, then based on current data we'd currently estimate a 3.6% failure rate per launch. That's significantly worse than the shuttle. However if there are a few more successful launches, then those numbers will improve rapidly.

I leave updating the simple proof of concept script that I put up to handle arbitrary numbers of launches and engine failures as an exercise for the reader.
The biggest problem I see that has plagued software design and the neverending quest for features as a means of recruiting users is...

Large, monolithic do-it-all programs.

Users too often have no choice over what functionality they can acquire or reject. If they want one feature, then in order to acquire it they are often required to accept numerous other features they don't need and maybe don't even want (because it makes the software more complex).

Whether intentional or not, UNIX design addressed this problem by separating functions into small, discrete, and often trivial programs.

But there is still a very strong general idea among developers that to acquire one thing, you must accept everything. It's an interesting psychology. This goes beyond features in programs and applies even more generally to how working materials (code, docs, etc.) are made available. Packaging eveything together is good when you want everything and do not want to have to acquire each part and assemble them yourself. But it can be counterproductive when you want only one or a few parts and not everything.

Examples of this are everywhere.

Frameworks. Combined source trees. Huge tarballs of many disparate programs form various sources packaged as a "system".

It is possible to separate the parts but not always easy. There is often an implied expectation that you will not try to separate them. This type of kitchen sink packaging often makes extra work for anyone wanting to just obtain one part and not the whole enchilada.

One of my favorite examples is multi-GB Microsoft downloads in order to obtain a few commandline utilities of several KB, e.g., WAIK.

I have seen one person attempt to solve this by mounting the ISO over HTTP and then extracting the desired given KB-sized program. This is slightly less than "convenient".

When things are packaged this way, it can make the job of tackling complexity just a wee bit more challenging.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool. You scan it quickly and find things that interest you. It works because the images are topical. An album cover is usually tangentially topical. A news photograph may be topical, but you have to quantify what you're looking at by reading the description.

That's the beauty of Pinterest: its photos ARE its descriptions.

A news site, by comparison, is damned hard to navigate when the articles are not sequential. It's the difference between browsing an old Sears Wishbook and reading a magazine.
After iter is ready, in 15 years, they expect to have fusion for 1000 seconds straight. Just need to tweak that for 10 years, and then we are ready for start building the commercial reactors, which might take 5-10 more years.

(extremely speculative of course)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus
Good to hear you passed this reference along -- hopefully its results are widely discussed and don't fall victim to the same publication bias, which would be quite ironic.

And I agree about Jelte Wicherts. I especially like his commitment to open data and data sharing.
Firebird client for Node in pure Javascript is updated : 0.0.8
Quickdroid can also search for abbreviations. You just have to enable this in the settings. It is not activated by default.
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Would this also apply if one has a good vocabulary within a single language?
If you install Chrome, there's a menu option for "Request Desktop Site"
CIA (In-Q-Tel) stakes a claim in MongoDB
Now That Facebook Is Charging Users, Why Not Offer These Paid Features?
You should do these 3 things; I registered and I am still not 100% confident that I know what you do.
Can I delete my Skype account? No
I would agree that Pinterest's layout works terribly for any that is text based.

The issue for a lot of websites is getting users to be intrigued enough to spend 10 seconds checking out the site. Making the site familiar or tying it to a sexy trend can maximize short term traction but at the expense of long term traction (unoptimized UI). I don't think this is right or wrong, each company has to make their own decision.
I think gap years are an excellent idea. If you can afford to travel for part of it, do so.

I feel that I've grown the most as a person from all of the travel I've done. Your perspective changes when you see how other people live and that the world is a big and different place outside of your neighborhood and the latest US-centric cable media coverage.

If you go backpacking you'll find that it's extremely common for European/Australian/Kiwi people to do gap years, it's only unheard of in the states.
Also, this error from zephyr has been on your home page for the last few hours: [...]

Thx & (hopefully) fixed!
Then it was irrelevant.
Purposefully jettisonning panels is a way of preventing an explosion from damaging the rest of the ship. The rocket creates energy in a direction, but what if something prevents the energy from going in that direction? The energy, in the form of expanding gasses, has to go somewhere. If these panels didn't break away to give the energy somewhere to go, it could have forced into another rocket or into the ship's body, causing a much bigger problem.
Art.sy, a Genome Project for the World of Art
I was curious about how reliable we should predict a Falcon 9 launch to be based on the stated design parameters (survives the loss of any 2 engines) and current launch data.

I found that under a simple Bayesian model, the estimated probability of catastrophic failure during the next launch is 3.6%. See http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-reliable-will-falco... for details.

Update: I made a careless calculation error. Change 3.6% to 2%. Oops.
So are these panels kind of a sort of relief valve?
I don't get it, looks like a huge POS on my screen (10 inch netbook, see screenshot)
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ScOWQmywYCDt9sJu0nQaWc...
Heartbeat could be your new password
For those who don't know who Paul Lutus is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus

Some key parts: "Lutus designed electronics for the NASA Space Shuttle and created a mathematical model of the solar system that was used by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the Viking Mars mission" and then "... he started writing computer programs on his first personal computer, an Apple II. In the 80s, he would eventually program Apple Writer,"

I also recommend his book about sailing around the world "Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor"!
Highlights on The Business of Software (2012)
Chuck Rossi talked about this quite a bit in one of his Tech Talks -- http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977

To put it mildly, he would terrify me as a boss -- but I can understand why people think he's great at what he does
I'm moving soon and will be setting up a new home office and one of the things I was thinking about is using Kinect as a sort of posture sensor at my desk, so if it detected me leaning forward, etc., it'd be able to throw a warning on the screen. Is there anything along these lines I should be looking at? I certainly don't mind writing it if I need to but I cannot be the first person with this idea.
1. Who said it was 10 years out? I've never heard that. Sometimes milestones are 10 years out and the public tends to confuse milestones with the finished product.

2. Ideas for parallel implementations of nuclear fusion have expanded, and as a result, funding and research has arguably become fragmented and resources have been diverted. In reality, there's a fixed amount of capital and knowledge (which is also a function of the availability of money) available for this kind of research. The amount of money the US puts into fusion research is quite paltry compared to the potential benefits. It may be a priority, but the way Washington spends money says otherwise.

Scientifically, fusion is maybe 10 years away. Politically, it's more like 40 for a real power plant, but with the current congress, I couldn't say. In addition to that, it's an expensive enough endeavor that it would be corporate suicide for a private company to attempt it, especially considering the majority of companies with enough capital to pursue something like fusion tend to be in the Oil and Gas industries.
Redefining Medicine With Apps and iPads
Right I was saying that the author should add that to his article. Its a very valuable configuration item and anytime your dealing with optimizing indexes its worth enabling.
"any changes you make to its folder will automatically be committed to git, and synced to repositories on other computers." [1]

I guess its not automatic in the sense that it does not install itself, but then again neither does dropbox...

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
Much simpler web deployment ahead: Harp.io
U.S. Natural Gas Resources Bigger Than Estimated, Analyst Says
I did something similar. Though for me it was after college and before starting on a career. Spent a year in Syria(I'm Lebanese) doing youth-work, teaching, etc... It was definitely an extremely beneficial year for me. I would recommend it for anyone as long as they can afford putting off making a living for a year(while this may be a foregone conclusion in the west, many people here have to start making money ASAP to support their parents, not the other way around)
People's History of Christopher Columbus